The manhunt for escaped prisoner Dorian Dailey ended after he was captured by the police today (January 9, 2024) in the heights of Saltan police have confirmed.
On May 25, 2023, following a seven-day trial, a nine-member jury found 29-year-old Dorian not guilty of murder but guilty of a lesser charge of manslaughter.
High Court Judge, Justice Thomas W. R. Astaphan who was the presiding Judge at the trial imposed a 28-year prison sentence against the Grand Fond man convicted of the manslaughter of his father Murray Dailey.
The brief facts of the case are that, in the early morning hours of January 9, 2017, after a verbal altercation, Dorian took a cutlass and inflicted severe head and other bodily injuries on his father Murray Dailey at Grand Fond.
The 62-year-old man was then transported to the Princess Margaret Hospital (PMH) where he was admitted until his death on February 21, 2017.
He escaped from the Dominica State Prison on January 3, 2024.